Moonfall 
Dir: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer
Rating: 2/5

German filmmaker with blockbuster credentials, Roland Emmerich of the ‘Disaster-opus’ oeuvre, challenges his avowed mass attraction technique with a sci-fi outing that postulates the fragmentation of the Moon which in turn threatens the very existence of the earth.

He expects us to believe in the fiction  that a mysterious force has knocked the moon from its orbit around Earth, sending it on a life extinguishing collision course with our planet. Don’t expect a roller-coaster ride – just be happy if you get some laughs out of the pseudo-astronomy posing as apocalyptic science fiction here. “Moonfall” intends to depict the horrors wreaked by the out-of-sync Moon dumping debris and eventually crashing into Earth. While the escapism depicted here is fun for a bit, much of it seems stupid, wacky, and totally off-kilter. Its ludicrous science gains potency as one of the dumbest ever fictional premises sold in Hollywood.